How does /vr/ feel about Game & Watches?

They get a reputation for being cheap toys that aren't very fun, but I think it's because they tend to get collectively lumped into people's minds with those Tiger LCD handhelds that flooded every toy store in the '90s.

Game & Watch games were actually fun, and some of them are fun enough to legitimately still be worth playing.

>>4067340
Super cool but super expensive. Those two screen games are GOAT. It's unfortunate that they can only be simulated and not emulated

They are also nice in a way because Nintendo stopped making arcade games, but they did make plenty of unique G&W games

Donkey Kong II is my favorite

I like them.

Surprised Nintendo hasn't done much with them since they're so crazy for re-selling their old properties. You'd think an all in one compilation on the 3DS would be a no brainer since the 3DS could probably emulate the look of the LCD screen pretty well.

>>4067340
meh. meme.

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>>4067492
Well, there was a Game Boy compilation of G&W games released by Nintendo. Also at some point Nintendo (or rather, licensed subcontractors) made some small keychain versions. I have the Octopus one. It's fairly faithful from what I can tell (though not 100% accurate), actually fun to play and keeps the clock and alarm/features.

>>4067492
They did re-release them as two collections for the DS but in an extremely limited fashion. (As Nintendo rewards)

I guess they wouldn't expect anyone to buy them as an actual product. If they had put both collections together and shoved them onto the eshop for cheap I think that it might have sold ok honestly.

Never played the originals but I loved the G&W Gallery 2 game on GBC. Never played the other ones.

Helmet (Mario version) was my favorite, though the parachute and mole games were also great.

>>4067854
>look at me i hate normies so much lol im such a nerd XD
Fag.

They are perfect collectors items; small, beautifully crafted, easy to maintain, playable without additional effort, not that expensive if you can cope without boxes or perfect condition.
I still own my childhood acquisitions of Donkey Kong and Rain Shower, I also had a few mini arcade games, but they were crap.

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>>4067362
> They get a reputation for being cheap toys
Is that so? I think this may be the case now on hindsight, but I always thought they carried a definite image of quality, precisely because they shared the market with extremely inferior LCD games.

For me, the orange/cream/black color scheme and sleek metallic exterior finish in the DK handheld was the definition of Cool Kid Gadget™

>>4067835
I had the Donkey Kong Jr. version. Shit was awesome.

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>>4068008
The multi-screen Game and Watches have an aesthetic I adore. It's clamshell perfection.

>>4067846
Weren't those a single game each though, rather than collections like G&W Gallery? You can (obviously) run them on a flashcart, they're very faithful and worth grabbing if you have an R4 or something. Ball got a DSiWare release too, I have it on my 3DS, but I think they shut DSiWare down?

>>4068194
Nah it was a few games on each:

Game & Watch Collection

Oil Panic
Donkey Kong
Greenhouse

Game & Watch Collection 2

Parachute
Octopus
Parachute × Octopus

G&W galleries were better still in my opinion. Loved the reimagned Fire game in the GBA one.

>>4067364
I wish I still had mine. I had Donkey Kong, Zelda and Safebuster from when I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s but sold them on eBay for about £20 each about ten years ago.

>>4067875
Butthurt normie.

>>4067340
They're cute and great time killers. I wish I had one.

>>4067340
I still like them, but that pictured DK one is the only one I have that still works properly. Fire and Manhole both have fucked buttons and won't register inputs consistently anymore.

I bought Cement Factory on my 3DS, Its too bad it seems my skills are shittier now than before

>>4067340
There great my mom bought me one for my 16th birthday.

>>4067492
ive been saying for a while, since nintendo is trying to get into the mobile market, you port Game and Watch titles on there, they can function as a live wallpaper/alarm clock, or as a generic time waster game, sell them for 2-3 dollars per game and bam

>>4067340
The Game and Watch Gallery games on the GBA were pretty great.